Please apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. COORDINATION 2004 Preliminary Call for Papers Sixth International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages 24-27 February 2004 Pisa, Italy http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 (under construction) =============================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of abstract: September 22, 2003 Submission of Papers: September 29, 2003, Notification of Acceptance: November 14, 2003 Camera-Ready Copy: December 4, 2003 CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES The need for increasing programming productivity and rapid development of complex systems provide the pragmatic motivation for the development of coordination/orchestration languages and models. The intellectual excitement associated with such endeavors is rooted in the decades-old desire to leverage off increasingly higher levels of abstractions. Coordination-based methods provide a clean separation between individual software components and their interactions within their overall software organization. Coordination is relevant in design, development, debugging, maintenance, and reuse of all complex concurrent and distributed systems. Specifically, coordination becomes paramount in the context of open systems, systems with mobile entities, and dynamically re-configurable evolving systems. Moreover, coordination models and languages focus on such key issues in Component Based Software Engineering as specification, interaction, and dynamic compositions. More recently, market trends brought on by the commercialization of the World Wide Web, have fuelled a new level of interest in coordination-based approaches in industry. Applications like BizTalk, standards like the web services' WS-* family, and contending coordination standards like BEPL4WS and WSCI, are all examples of this phenomenon. This interest is opening up new opportunities both to apply coordination-based techniques to a broad class of applications as well as to grapple with potentially new kinds of requirements coming from internet-scale scenarios. PREVIOUS EDITIONS The previous conferences in this series took place in Cesena (Italy), Berlin (Germany), Amsterdam (Netherlands), and Limasol (Cyprus), York (England). Building on the success of these events, this conference provides a forum for the growing community of researchers interested in models, languages, and implementation techniques for coordination and component-based software, as well as applications that utilize them. At http://music.dsi.unifi.it/coordination/ more details are available. TOPICS OF INTEREST (include, but are not limited to): * Theoretical models and foundations for coordination * Coordination middlewares * Specification, refinement, and analysis of software architectures * Architectural, and interface definition languages * Agent-oriented languages and models * Dynamic software architectures * Component Programming * Web Services * Coordination in Peer to Peer and Grid Computing * Tools and environments for the development of coordinated applications * Industrial relevance of coordination and software architectures * Domain-specific software coordination models and case studies. PROCEEDINGS The conference proceedings will be published by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings of the previous editions are appeared in the LNCS series: volumes 1061, 1282 and 1594, 1906, 2315. SUBMISSIONS Electronic submission will be used using conference web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 (see also http://music.dsi.unifi.it/coordination). Authors are invited to submit electronically a plain ASCII cover page containing the paper title, authors' names, contact author and full address (including e-mail and fax) together with an abstract of up to 100 words (no later than 22 September 2003). Full papers (in English, up to 6000 words) should be submitted in PostScript or PDF no later than 29 September 2003. Authors are invited to use the llncs style. A link will be found the conference web page. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or journals is not allowed. LOCATION The conference will be held in Pisa, Dipartimento di Informatica, Via F.Buonarroti 2. Program co-chairs Rocco De Nicola (Univ. Firenze) Greg Meredith (Microsoft) Organizing Chair Gianluigi Ferrari (Univ. Pisa) Program Committee: Roberto Amadio, Univ. Marseilles - France Farhad Arbab, CWI - The Netherlands Marcelo Bonsangue, Leiden University - The Netherlands Paolo Ciancarini, Univ. Bologna Italy José Fiadeiro, Univ. Leicester - United Kingdom Chris Hankin, Imperial Colege - United Kingdom Jean-Marie Jacquet, Univ. Namur - Belgium Antonia Lopes, Univ. of Lisbon - Portugual Jeff Magee Imperial College - United Kingdom George Papadopoulos, Univ. Cyprus - Cyprus Gian Pietro Picco, Politecnico di Milano -Italy Rosario Pugliese, Univ. Firenze - Italy Gruia-Catalin Roman, Washington University in St. Louis,USA Ant Rowstrom, Microsoft Cambridge - United Kingdom Vijay Saraswat, PennState Univ. - USA Carolin Talcott SRI - USA Robert Tolksdorf, Free University of Berlin Germany Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College - United Kingdom Alan Wood, Univ. York - United Kingdom Franco Zambonelli, Univ. Modena - Italy Organizing Committee Andrea Bracciali, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Robero Bruni, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Antonio Cisternino, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Dan Hirsch, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Laura Semini, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Emilio Tuosto, Univ. Pisa, Italy, Further Information - COORDINATION2004 Web site: http://www.di.unipi.it/Coordination2004 - For questions: coordination2004@di.unipi.it --